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43岁的蒂姆·柯林斯是英国皇家爱尔兰团第一营的指挥官。伊拉克战争发生两个多月来,这个原本默默无闻的英军中校经历了人生的大起大落。 战争前夕,他因为在驻地发表了一篇肃整军纪的激情演讲,而在大西洋两岸广受赞誉,被英国人称作“海湾英雄”。然而不久前当他率部返回英国后,有人却指控他在伊战期间曾虐待战俘,违反了《日内瓦公约》。连日来,当英国国防部对柯林斯展开调查之际,英国《镜报》等媒体又披露说,柯林斯昔日在伊拉克战场上曾与一名美军军官发生争吵,这为他今天的遭遇埋下了隐患。
Tim Collins, 43, is the commander of the first battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment. For more than two months after the Iraq war, the otherwise unknown British lieutenant colonel experienced ups and downs in life. On the eve of the war, he was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic for his passionate speech at the station and was called “Gulf Hero” by the British. However, some time ago, when he led his troops to Britain, some accused him of mistreating the prisoners of war during the Iraqi war and violated the Geneva Convention. In recent days, when the British Ministry of Defense conducted an investigation into Collins, the media such as the British “Mirror Press” disclosed that Collins had quarrel with a U.S. military officer on the Iraqi battlefield in the past days, laying a hidden danger for his experience today .